Juridisk navn: Bovey, Robin Bruce
Fødselsdato: 1947
Køn: male
Nationalitet: UK
Canada
Bopæl: Mozambique
Covas, Portugal
Erhverv: biologist
humanitarian
Organisationer: International Red Cross
Kort biografi: ROBIN BOVEY is a biologist by training and the author of half a dozen books of natural history. He spent many years working in environmental conservation both in England and Canada. Over the past fifteen years, Robin has devoted a lot of energy to humanitarian work with the International Red Cross in such places as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Darfur and East Timor. While in Mozambique eight years ago, he taught himself to turn wood on a lathe. He now maintains a workshop in the northern Portugal village of Covas next to a gallery that houses his work. His pieces have been bought by collectors in Europe, southern Africa, Canada and the USA.

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Birds of Victoria and Vicinity af Robin Bovey

Thinner, ricketier and less glossynice than the Vancouver counterpart they had up here at the cabin (it is called “Pepperland” and it is beautiful! The hippies left an amazing miniature legacy of beautiful rural retreats scattered around our part of the world, and I am glad to take them presumptuously as a part of my common patrimony), this book was still actually more of an interesting read, because of the accessible-detailed discussion of Victoria habitat regions (dry coastal forest, what we had all over the city before the brown man, full of arbutus and Garry oak, and which the brown man then transformed into Garry oak meadow and the white man into condos; coastal rainforest, outside town and all over the island, with the Doug firs and hemlock and pine and spruce we know well; coast; open ocean; wetlands [e.g. Swan Lake]; estuary [e.g. Goldstream]). So interesting! So although the pictures don’t pop as much and the book may be slightly less usefully arranged as an actual field guide, imma still give it the same amount of bones as the Vancouver guide because of those happy edutaining moments. It didn’t tell me about the birds I saw today either, though—I think they were feral turkeys, which I’m pretty sure is what everyone means when they talk about wild turkeys out here (wrongly?), and my confusion just came because a turkey up until now always looked like something fat and baleful you see at the Saanich fair, or like something fat and delicious you see stuffed with delicious times on Thanksgiving.… (mere)

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Birds of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland af Wayne Campbell

This is probably the best-pitched level of bird guide that I know of—it’s from the same series as the Birds of Coastal British Columbia of Acorn, Baron, and Nordhagen that I have previously used, and in that sense is equally excellent (although I wonder why they decided to do without the waterproofness and stitched biunding this time), but it has a lot more birds that you might possibly see around here but are not common enough in the province as a whole to make the BC guide. It taught me that those amazing birds with the tiger stripes and leopard spots on different parts of their body that Jason is so into in his yard in North Van are Northern Flickers, and it didn’t teach me what that orange bird with the red patches I saw that one day when I pledged myself to try to make things right with Heidi was (I’m starting to think it was a well-wishing spirit, or just a hallucination), and it taught me that to find out what was up with those crazy birds I saw today on vacation on Galiano I would have to go to a book that talked about birds of Victoria rather than Vancouver, because that’s the way the habitats break down. It taught me a lot of things! That’s a good-a guidebook-a.… (mere)

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